I've been lurking on this list for over a year, so it's probably time for me to post my self-introduction.
I work for Science Commons on the NeuroCommons (http://neurocommons.org/), a pilot project to develop and promote some of the ideas behind Science Commons (http://sciencecommons.org/). The NeuroCommons is intended to be a systems integration effort, not development, so I'm very interested to hear opinions on what the best tools and practices are in the following areas: - mining text for scientific information - representing scientific statements and their provenance - RDF stores and RDF query engines, including front ends - RDF curation and annotation systems I worked at Millennium Pharmaceuticals for over 3 years in the computational biology group, where I gained some experience with pathway databases, including the Ingenuity knowledge base, and analytical applications that use them. I've also been involved desultorily with BioPAX (http://biopaxwiki.org). My background is in computer science, including software engineering and formal languages. I am treasurer of the Cambridge Entomological Club and the current caretaker of its journal, Psyche (http://psyche.entclub.org/). Hey, entomology is a life science, isn't it?